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Monday, December 31, 2012

We like this clip. It shows Connie appearing on a TV show in Jakarta, Indonesia. It's really nice to see all those happy, smiling faces, and everybody having fun.
Connie sings her own song BEAUTIFUL WORLD, from her new album of the same name, and also the traditional song TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR.

Sunday, December 30, 2012

In the past few days, there have been lots of people from Indonesia, coming to read this Connie Talbot Official blog, and also Connie's Facebook page and Twitter. Connie's management would like to welcome all these new friends, and to thank you for your support for Connie.

Indonesia is a great country, and very beautiful, and Connie has really enjoyed her first visit there. She has made many new friends. We hope it won't be long before she can visit again, and maybe next time she will be able to stay longer.

Connie has felt a lot of positive emotion at the warm welcome she has received in all the countries she has visited in south east Asia during the Beautiful World tour in the past two weeks - Hong Kong, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia. Everyone has been very friendly and kind in every place she has visited.

Once again, on Connie's behalf, thank you all for your kindness and support.

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Connie's video "Connie Talbot - Someone Like You - 10 weeks into playing piano" has been viewed more than one million times since it was uploaded on August 26th, 2011. "Someone Like You" by Adele was one of Connie's favorite songs at the time.

This was a re-upload from Connie's previous YouTube channel. It had been recorded several months before, almost exactly 10 weeks after Connie had her very first ever lesson on the piano.

This is now the 14th video on Connie's channel to achieve one million views or more.

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Connie's "Price Tag" home video has just reached over 500,000 (half a million) views on YouTube. It was uploaded on August 27th, 2011 when Connie was 10 years old.

If you listen very carefully, you might just hear someone ringing the doorbell!

You probably will also notice that Connie is wearing a thick woolly sweater even though the video was made in the middle of the summer. That gives you some idea of what the weather in England can be like occasionally. :)

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Connie has now arrived in Hong Kong for the first stage of her mini tour of South East Asia to promote her new album, Beautiful World. One of the first things she did was to tweet a photo of the view across the harbour from her hotel room.

Today, Connie will be settling in and getting some rest. Then she will be starting rehearsals for her first performance of the tour, at Windsor House, which is a 17-storey shopping and entertainment complex in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong. That will take place at 3pm on Saturday, December 15th.

Then it's off to the Philippines for 3 performances in different locations in Manila on the 16th and 17th. A busy schedule.

Another milestone! Connie's page on Viddy.com has now reached 10,000 followers. On Viddy, they write that number as 10K. This is an amazing success, and puts Connie into the top ranks on this relatively new social media platform. We are very proud of her achievement.

Connie has already made some waves at Viddy. Only last week, her videos were #1 in all the main charts on Viddy, Featured, Popular, and Trending, all at the same time!

Why not swing by Connie's page, and follow (if you're not already doing so). Also, why not watch all the viddys there? Each one lasts only 15 seconds, so you could watch them all in less than half an hour.

From Connie's management team: A comment on Facebook from one of our friends, about the effect of all the smiles in one of Connie's videos, started us to wondering if we could find the answer to a very important question.

Of all the 100 or so videos on Connie's YouTube channel, which one has the greatest number of smiles?

Naturally, a question like this can only be solved by a careful and detailed observation of all the evidence. So we decided the best way was to watch every one of all the 100 or so videos, and count the number of smiles in each one. The trouble was that after a while we found we were enjoying Connie's music so much that we started to lose count.

So the question still needs an answer.

Whatever the final answer proves to be, we'd like to suggest that, of all the 100 or so videos, this next video would be definitely one of the top contenders. It's a cover made just for fun at home of "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars, who is one of Connie's favorite singers.

This video is not far away from one million views on YouTube.
Please click through to watch on YouTube, and please Comment, Like, Subscribe, and Share with all your friends. Thanks!

An interesting thing happened to this video some months ago. All of a sudden, people started to write comments sending love from their own country. It had not been planned, it was just spontaneous. This went on and on for several days, until almost every country was represented.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Connie Talbot sings "Hopelessly Devoted To You" from the musical "Grease", a song that was made famous by Olivia Newton-John.

Connie first sang this song in public at the age of 4, when she entered a talent contest while on a family summer holiday down in Devon. The judges were so impressed that they awarded Connie the top prize! The contest's presenter predicted that she would be performing in London's West End by the time she reached 17.

When this video was uploaded on Connie's YT channel, we were all a bit worried at first, because it seemed to be getting less views than some other videos around it. But anyway, it picked itself up later, and now it has more than half a million views!

Watch the video on YouTube, and please Like, Comment, Subscribe, and Share with all your friends :)

Monday, December 10, 2012

Every single one of Connie's friends/fans is currently talking about her new album for Asia, "Beautiful World" and, as we've seen, it's starting to have some chart success already in its target area of South East Asia.

So we thought you would all like to see again the little video that started it all, so to speak. When the song, "Beautiful World", was first released as a stand alone single on iTunes, Connie made a demo video of the song with her own piano accompaniment. She also announced the release date of the single. The video was released on YouTube.

Sunday, December 9, 2012

From Connie's team:
Some people have asked us for the lyrics to Connie's original song "Building Bridges", the live performance of which was uploaded by Connie on her channel Connie Talbot Official a few days ago.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkfWXd7q8GU

So here are the lyrics to the song!

Building Bridges

Maybe a stranger is a friend you haven't met yet,
Cos there's an ocean in between,
Cos there's a smile you haven't seen.

Maybe somewhere somebody's thinking 'bout you right now,
In a place you've never been,
But you've seen it in dream.

It may be closer than we think,
But we won't know till we begin.

Building bridges,
From heart to heart,
From soul to soul,
Building bridges,
So far away can be so close,
Eight billion wishes can come true,
There's always something we can do,
Building bridges,
From me to you,
From me to you.

Maybe we're different like the colors of the rainbow,
But underneath the sun,
We all shine as one.
Everywhere round the world all the walls are falling,
Through the rubble there's a song,
It's the calm before the storm.

It may be closer than we think,
But we won't know till we begin.

Building bridges,
From heart to heart,
From soul to soul,
Building bridges,
So far away can be so close,
Eight billion wishes can come true,
There's always something we can do,
Building bridges.

One blue marble lonely in the universe,
It's the same small world we're in,
So let's begin.

Building bridges,
From heart to heart,
From soul to soul,
Building bridges,
So far away can be so close.

Building bridges,
From heart to heart,
From soul to soul,
Building bridges,
So far away can be so close,
Eight billion wishes can come true,
There's always something we can do,
For building bridges,
From me to you,
From me to you,
Building bridges.

* Please note that these lyrics are the property of the composers Connie Talbot, Toby Gad, and Rune Westberg. *

Update: PS: Since we published this, we were told that Connie's "Beautiful World" album has also entered the Taiwan Western Album chart, at #7, sharing that place with the new album "Unapologetic" by Rihanna.